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ADEPT Decisions Releases Version 8.0

ADEPT Decisions Releases Version 8.0 ADEPT Decisions has released version 8.0 of the award winning decisioning software today. Stephen John Leonard, Founder of the company noted “We are very proud to unveil this new release of the ADEPT Decisions decisioning software. This is the next major release since the end of the pandemic in 2022 [...]

American Banking and Economics Explained

American Banking and Economics Explained Introduction This tongue-in-cheek explanation of American banking and economics found its way to me via WhatsApp, so the original author is unknown. I thought in light of the current challenges in the US banking industry, it is a very timely explanation! Mary had a bar “Mary is the proprietor of [...]

Meet the ADEPT Decisions Management Team, Jarrod McElhinney

Meet the ADEPT Decisions Management Team Introduction The entire ADEPT Decisions team has always prided itself on providing the ‘personal touch’ to our clients; whether it means going the extra mile on a project, accommodating short-notice configuration changes, or just providing a sounding board to the credit risk team. We believe that this flexible, ‘can [...]

The New Lending Industry Word Salad, Part 2

The New Lending Industry, a Word Salad, Part 2 Following the article 'The New Lending Industry, a Word Salad, Part 1', we offer an Exploration of Some of the New Terms and TLAs Introduction Whoever said that the lending industry is boring and never changes clearly isn’t up to date on their reading! With the [...]

Meet the ADEPT Decisions Management Team: Jason Kretzmann

Meet the ADEPT Decisions Management Team: Jason Kretzmann Introduction The entire ADEPT Decisions team has always prided itself on providing the ‘personal touch’ to our clients; whether it means going the extra mile on a project, accommodating short-notice configuration changes, or just providing a sounding board to the credit risk team. We believe that this [...]

The New Lending Industry Word Salad

The New Lending Industry Word Salad An Exploration of Some of the New Terms and TLAs Introduction Whoever said that the lending industry is boring and never changes clearly isn’t up to date on their reading! With the exponential growth of fintechs and mobile lenders over the past decade, a whole plethora of new products, [...]

Meet the ADEPT Decisions Management Team

Meet the ADEPT Decisions Management Team: Michael Lorenat Introduction The entire ADEPT Decisions team has always aimed to provide the ‘personal touch’ to our clients; whether it means going the extra mile on a project, accommodating short-notice configuration changes, or just providing a sounding board to the credit risk team. We believe that this flexible, [...]

Financial Inclusion

Financial Inclusion Introduction In the 1970s disco era, there was a successful all-ladies German pop group called Silver Convention. One of their top 10 hits was ‘Everybody’s Talking ‘Bout Love.’ Whenever I hear the term financial inclusion, I often think of the lyrics to this song: “You know, everybody's talking about love these days It's [...]

Meet the ADEPT Decisions Management Team – Eva Neves

Meet the ADEPT Decisions Management Team Introduction The entire ADEPT Decisions team has always strived to provide the ‘personal touch’ to our clients; whether it means going the extra mile on a project, accommodating short-notice configuration changes, or just providing a sounding board to the credit risk team. We believe that this flexible, ‘can do’ [...]

Stories and Learnings from a Career in Risk Management

Stories and Learnings from a Career in Risk Management Introduction For this last article of the year, I thought it would be appropriate to write a light hearted piece about some of the funny or strange things I have encountered in my many years in the credit risk industry. Over these years I met a [...]